Description

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SU 7172 NE
4/620

SILVER STREET (west side) Number 30, READING

Former Rising Sun Temperance Tavern

II

Former temperance tavern. Dated 1877 with additions and alterations
of 1885. By Alfred Waterhouse. For St Giles Parish Council, at the
instigation of Mrs Waterhouse. Grey brick in English bond with red brick
quoins, arches, bands, and decorative features; ashlar plinth band, sills,
lintels, and bands (clasping rainwater pipes). Rear of red brick. Plain tile
roof with crested ridge tiles. Brick stacks at left end and to ridge of rear
wing. 2 storeys with attic, 4 bays; wing to rear right of 2 storeys,
2 bays. Windows, other than to ground floor at front, have wooden
mullions and transoms, stone sills and lintels, and brick relieving
arches; those of left return and rear have leaded upper lights with
coloured glass. Entrance front; chamfered plinth. Step up to
entrance, on right, which has door of 9 raised and fielded panels,
overlight, and hollow moulded surround. Entrance and ground-floor
windows all segmental arched below continuous hoodmould, the windows
with vertical glazing bars (lower parts boarded up). Projecting
double-sided metal tavern sign, some letters missing. 3-light windows
to 1st floor, with decorative brickwork to tympana. Brick modillions
to eaves. 2-light attic windows rising through eaves, those at centre
paired in dated, pilastered, gable with stepped, logged, eaves; outer
windows below finialled hipped roofs. Left return; 2 bays. 2-light
windows except for 1-light attic windows which flank corbelled
external stack. Corbelled attic pilasters support stepped, logged,
eaves. Rear; two lst-floor windows (of 2 and 3 lights); 1 attic
window. Wing return has door of left of paired 1-light windows, and
3-light windows over. Interior; not inspected, but reported to retain
original stair, fireplaces, and some ceiling cornices.

Listing NGR: SU7190572801

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540930

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas